[Histonet] forceps and bunsen burners

[Joe Nocito]

the good ole days. The lab I'm at  now used to used micro loop flamers. It 
was like playing the game "operation", if you touched the sides, sparks 
shoot up. It does cause a nice light show with the lights off. My other 
place of employment, we used alcohol burners, others used gauze.
    Personally, I miss the days of having a cigarette hanging from my mouth 
while cutting and coverslipping. I admit, I'm much healthier today, but miss 
the good ole days.

JTT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheryl R. Kerry" <tkngflght <@t> yahoo.com>
To: <histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:21 AM
Subject: [Histonet] forceps and bunsen burners


>I really miss Bunsen burners!  Now we use a lot of kimwipes.
>
> Kemlo--I recall the days of wiping your embedding center with a xylene
> soaked rag...me with a cuppa joe on my 'tome and others with cigarettes
> hanging out the sides of their mouths...and yes, the occasional lab fires
> that resulted!!  And I really miss REAL light green SF yellowish!
>
> Cheryl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of kemlo
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 4:22 AM
> To: 'sheila adey'; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: RE: [Histonet] (no subject)
>
> In the good old days of Bunsen burners we used to fry the end of the
> forceps; nothing survived that and if it did it was readily identifiable.
> Alas the Bunsen burner has been consigned to the politically incorrect as
> the 'Scientists' of today would incinerate themselves whilst the
> 'Technicians' of yesterday didn't (well not often).
>
> The sad demise of mercury, lead, Bunsen burners, formalin, anything too 
> hot,
> too cold, too explosive, too poisonous, etc. Having your tea in the Lab 
> next
> to the specimens and processing TB specimens 'on the bench'.
>
> Would Histology have the techniques and stains it now has if harmful
> chemicals had not been experimented with? Will anything new be discovered 
> by
> the HistoTech if all that we can use is 'safe' chemicals and procedures? I
> don't see the kids fiddling with things like we use to, no explosions, no
> fires and no injuries. Am I just an old reactionary waiting to be put out 
> to
> pasture and ruminate on what was?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of sheila 
> adey
> Sent: 17 November 2007 20:41
> To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: [Histonet] (no subject)
>
>
> Hi Netters,
>
> We are trying to minimize possible embedding contaminations. What are 
> other
> people doing to prevent contamination due to forceps etc.
>
> Thanks in advanceSheila Adey HT MLTPort Huron HospitalMichigan
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